Florida standards alignment

• SS.912.CG.2.11

  Covered

  Evaluate political communication for bias, factual accuracy, omission and emotional appeal.

  Covered by

  • Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • Tea — The Way of Tea
  • Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Ep 1 · Reading a Coffee Ad
  • · Ep 2 · Reading a Tea Ad
  • · Ep 3 · Reading a Chocolate Ad
  • · Ep 4 · Whose Voice Tells the Story (reading a text for what it leaves out)
  • · Ep 11 · Tiki and the Tropical Paradise
  • · Ep 15 · The Language of Doubt
  • · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
  • · Every course's Sources bibliography, with per-claim verification
  • · Ep 8 · Reading a Craft Beer Label
  • · Ep 15 · Torches of Freedom
  • · Ep 16 · Reefer Madness and the Language of Fear
  • · Ep 18 · Just Say No
  • · Ep 15 · Doubt Is Our Product
  • · Ep 20 · The Ban Against the Evidence (the UK banning khat against its own scientific advice)

  Note: Reading a message for bias, omission, and emotional appeal is the media-literacy method run in every episode — ads, labels, and campaign language read for what they leave out, and the fallacies named.

• SS.912.W.4.12

  Covered

  Evaluate the scope and impact of the Columbian Exchange on Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

  Covered by

  • Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • Tea — The Way of Tea

  • · Ep 3 · Conquest and the Great Reversal
  • · Ep 4 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
  • · Ep 11 · The Triangular Trade
  • · Ep 12 · Burning the Books (the destruction of the Mesoamerican codices)
  • · Ep 15 · From Sacred to Commodity
  • · Ep 1 · The Coffee Belt: Where Coffee Grows and Why
  • · Ep 2 · The Tea Plant and Its Climate Zones
  • · Ep 3 · The Big Producers and the Cacao Varieties
  • · Ep 4 · From New Guinea to the New World

  Note: The Columbian Exchange is taught directly through the plants that moved — cacao, sugar, and the exchange of crops among the New World and the Old.

• SS.912.W.4.15

  Covered

  Explain the origins, developments, and impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade between West Africa and the Americas.

  Covered by

  • Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • Tea — The Way of Tea
  • Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • Kava — The Root of Peace

  • · Ep 3 · Conquest and the Great Reversal
  • · Ep 4 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
  • · Ep 11 · The Triangular Trade
  • · Ep 12 · Burning the Books (the destruction of the Mesoamerican codices)
  • · Ep 15 · From Sacred to Commodity
  • · Ep 4 · Resistance and Revolution
  • · Ep 11 · The Maroons
  • · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution
  • · Ep 4 · Whose Voice Tells the Story (Equiano, 1789; Mary Prince, 1831)
  • · Ep 2 · Who Grows the Tea (colonial and plantation labour)
  • · Ep 5 · Whose Knowledge Is It
  • · Ep 6 · Kava Governs
  • · Ep 17 · The Opium Wars
  • · Ep 20 · The Ban Against the Evidence

  Note: The trans-Atlantic slave trade, the triangular trade, the Middle Passage, and the plantation economies it fed — with first-person accounts by formerly enslaved writers — are taught in depth.

• SS.912.AA.1.3

  Covered

  Analyze the reciprocal roles of the Triangular Trade routes between Africa and the western hemisphere, Africa and Europe, and Europe and the western hemisphere.

  Covered by

  • Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Ep 3 · Conquest and the Great Reversal
  • · Ep 4 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
  • · Ep 11 · The Triangular Trade
  • · Ep 12 · Burning the Books (the destruction of the Mesoamerican codices)
  • · Ep 15 · From Sacred to Commodity
  • · Ep 4 · Resistance and Revolution
  • · Ep 11 · The Maroons
  • · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution

  Note: The triangular trade and the Middle Passage are taught directly through the sugar and rum commodity chains that ran it.

• SS.912.AA.2.13

  Partially covered

  Explain how the rise of cash crops accelerated the growth of the domestic slave trade in the United States.

  Covered by

  • Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Ep 4 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
  • · Ep 4 · Resistance and Revolution
  • · Ep 11 · The Maroons
  • · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution
  • · Ep 4 · The Sugar Islands
  • · Ep 4 · From New Guinea to the New World
  • · Ep 11 · Waste-Product Economics

  What we do and don't cover: The cash-crop plantation economy and its dependence on enslaved labor is taught in depth through sugar and rum. The specifically DOMESTIC (interstate) U.S. slave trade the benchmark names is not the catalog's focus — its lens is the Atlantic and Caribbean plantation world.

• SS.912.G.3.2

  Covered

  Use geographic terms and tools to explain how weather and climate influence the natural character of a place.

  Covered by

  • Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • Tea — The Way of Tea
  • Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • Kava — The Root of Peace

  • · The Commodity Map itself, every episode pinned at its origin
  • · The Growing Belts map, production regions by latitude band and country
  • · Ep 1 · The Coffee Belt: Where Coffee Grows and Why
  • · Ep 3 · The Cacao Tree and the Narrowest Belt
  • · Ep 6 · Why Volcanic Soil Only
  • · Ep 1 · Climate Change Is Redrawing the Map
  • · Ep 3 · A Two-Degree Threat
  • · Ep 10 · Karst Limestone and Bourbon
  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option B, assess a producing country's climate viability and defend the assessment

  Note: This is the Growing Belts map: climate and latitude deciding where each commodity can grow, and climate change redrawing that map.

• SS.912.E.3.3

  Covered

  Discuss the effect of barriers to trade and why nations sometimes erect barriers to trade or establish free trade zones.

  Covered by

  • Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • Tea — The Way of Tea
  • Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis

  • · Ep 4 · The Hidden Costs of Cheap Sugar
  • · Ep 1 · Follow the Money: Bean to Cup
  • · Ep 2 · Who Gets Paid, Tea and Coffee Compared
  • · Ep 3 · The Commodity Trap
  • · Ep 12 · The Jimador's Share
  • · Ep 14 · Pattern 3: Labor Captures the Smallest Share (the smile curve)
  • · Ep 21 · The Smile Curve, Confirmed
  • · Ep 7 · Who Captures the Value

  Note: The U.S. sugar program's import quotas, tariffs, and price supports are worked in detail as a trade barrier, with its consumer cost, alongside the benefits and costs of trade along real chains.

• SS.912.E.1.4

  Partially covered

  Define supply, demand, quantity supplied, and quantity demanded; graphically illustrate situations that would cause changes in each, and demonstrate how the equilibrium price of a product is determined by the interaction of supply and demand in the market place.

  Covered by

  • Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Ep 1 · Price Shocks and Why You Keep Buying
  • · Ep 4 · From Luxury to the Cheapest Calorie

  What we do and don't cover: Price elasticity of demand is taught explicitly — inelastic coffee demand absorbing a sharp price spike — but this is one concept in context, not the full supply-and-demand graphing the benchmark requires.

• ELA.10.R.3.4

  Covered

  Analyze an author's use of rhetoric in a text.

  Covered by

  • Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Ep 4 · Blood-Sweetened Luxury
  • · Ep 15 · Torches of Freedom
  • · Ep 17 · Lin Zexu's Letter
  • · Ep 16 · Three Sentences, Three Policies
  • · Ep 15 · Doubt Is Our Product
  • · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
  • · Ep 20 · The Ban Against the Evidence (the UK banning khat against its own scientific advice)
  • · Ep 16 · Reefer Madness and the Language of Fear

  Note: Rhetoric is analyzed in real primary texts — Lin Zexu's letter, the abolitionist sugar-boycott pamphlets, Torches of Freedom, and fear-based drug-policy media.

• ELA.10.R.2.3

  Covered

  Analyze an author's choices in establishing and achieving purpose(s) in historical American speeches and essays.

  Covered by

  • Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Ep 4 · Blood-Sweetened Luxury (the abolitionist sugar boycott)
  • · Ep 8 · Selling Prohibition
  • · Ep 15 · Torches of Freedom
  • · Ep 17 · Lin Zexu's Letter (using Britain's own values against its opium policy)

  Note: Author purpose and rhetoric are analyzed in effective historical American texts — the abolitionist sugar boycott, Torches of Freedom, Selling Prohibition.

• ELA.10.R.2.4

  Covered

  Compare the development of two opposing arguments on the same topic, evaluating the effectiveness and validity of the claims, and analyzing the ways in which the authors use the same information to achieve different ends.

  Covered by

  • Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom

  • · Ep 4 · Whose Voice Tells the Story, Beckford (1790) against Equiano (1789) and Mary Prince (1831) on the same plantation world
  • · Ep 3 · Two Ways of Seeing a Bean
  • · Ep 5 · Two Ways of Knowing
  • · Ep 18 · Whose Voice
  • · Ep 15 · Doubt Is Our Product
  • · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
  • · Ep 20 · The Ban Against the Evidence (the UK banning khat against its own scientific advice)

  Note: The Whose Voice method is exactly this — a planter's account read against Equiano and Mary Prince, two ways of seeing the same bean — with the validity of each claim assessed.

What we don't claim

A standards page is only worth reading if the omissions are honest too. We looked at these and left them out:

• Mathematics — nothing. This catalog does no mathematics instruction, so it meets no Florida B.E.S.T. mathematics standard and no NGSSS mathematics standard.
• Science — Florida is NOT an NGSS state (NGSSS ≠ NGSS), and we did not fetch its science standards. Despite the similar name, the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards are Florida's own system, not the Next Generation Science Standards. Florida's science standards (SC.912) are bespoke. This catalog has no laboratory work, and we did not fetch the Florida science standards this pass, so — by our fetch-or-don't-cite rule — Florida gets no science claim.
• Grade 7 Civics (SS.7.CG) — where the flagship's fullest home lives, not yet fetched. Florida concentrates its dedicated state-and-local civics instruction in the middle-school Grade 7 Civics course (SS.7.CG), which culminates in the statewide Civic Literacy assessment. That is the natural 1:1 home for Florida Civics. We mapped the flagship into the high-school Civics & Government benchmarks that name state and local government (CG.3.15, CG.3.10, CG.2.9) this pass, honestly as partial, and defer SS.7.CG to a later pass rather than cite standards we have not read.
• Florida's distinctive direct democracy has no benchmark of its own. Central flagship lessons — the once-every-20-years Constitution Revision Commission, the citizen-initiative petition, and the 60% supermajority any amendment needs — are what make Florida's constitution unusual. But the SS.912.CG benchmarks are federal-focused and contain no state-constitution-amendment or initiative/referendum benchmark, so those lessons map only obliquely (via CG.2.7, civic engagement). The gap is in the standards, not the lessons.
• Most of the Civics & Government federal-heavy standards. CG.1.1-1.3 (founding philosophy, Enlightenment, and the Federalist Papers as named content), CG.2.1 (constitutional provisions on citizenship), CG.2.4-2.6 (balancing rights, government restrictions, and the expansion of civil rights — touched only through history), CG.2.8/2.10/2.12/2.13 (parties, interest groups, media, and voter turnout as political-science content — our media literacy is consumer protection, not political-media analysis), CG.3.1 (ideologies that conflict with democracy), CG.3.4-3.5 (the executive branch and regulatory agencies), CG.3.9/3.13/3.14 (judges vs. other officials, interstate disputes, judicial decision-making), and CG.4.x (U.S. foreign policy) — the courses do not genuinely teach these, so we do not claim them.
• The landmark-cases overlap is thin, and we say so. CG.3.11 enumerates Marbury, McCulloch, Dred Scott, Plessy, Brown, Gideon, Miranda, Korematsu, Mapp, In re Gault, U.S. v. Nixon, Bakke, Hazelwood, and Heller. Our Know Your Rights course teaches Tinker, Brandenburg, Mapp, Terry, T.L.O., Riley, and Carpenter as applicable rules — Mapp is the only direct overlap. We claim the case-application skill as partial and do not pretend to cover this benchmark's specific case list.
• The African American History strand is claimed only where the catalog genuinely teaches it. SS.912.AA is a 100+ benchmark strand spanning African kingdoms and the origins of slavery, the full arc of enslavement and resistance, Reconstruction, and the entire civil-rights and post-1968 story. We claim four benchmarks — the triangular/trans-Atlantic slave trade (AA.1.3), cash crops and slavery (AA.2.13, partial), the Great Migration (AA.3.9), and the Harlem Renaissance (AA.3.10, partial) — because the catalog's commodity, slave-trade, and Great Migration content genuinely covers them. The rest of the strand is not taught here, and we do not stretch to claim it.
• The rest of World History, American History, Geography, and Economics we checked. We read the high-school benchmarks of each strand and claim only what the catalog genuinely teaches. The surveys of the ancient and classical world, the World Wars, the American political eras, monetary and fiscal policy, market structures, and the many tool-and-skill benchmarks not listed above are not claimed. The reject list is the evidence the map was not padded.
• B.E.S.T. ELA grades 6-9 and 11-12. We mapped Grade 10 (ELA.10) as the representative high-school grade; grades 6-9 and 11-12 carry parallel reading, rhetoric, and communication benchmarks we did not separately transcribe. And the B.E.S.T. ELA composition benchmarks are met only by the Coffee project — one optional project in one episode — so the argument and research standards are claimed as partial, never a full writing programme.